The 48-hour tech detox challenge: Feeling lost, but sleeping and reading more

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Straits Times journalists Yip Wai Yee and Bryan de Silva try to survive 48 hours without the products or services of tech giants Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.
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The heat is sweltering and I am speed walking in the hot sun, hoping and praying that I am headed in the right direction.

I am on my way to conduct an interview at a newsmaker's apartment located in Sengkang, an area I have been to only once before, and I cannot be sure if I am on the right track.

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